Migration News

Rome -
A Spanish aid group accused Italian authorities of putting humanitarian operations in the Mediterranean at risk on Monday, after its migrant rescue boat was impounded on suspicion it was aiding illegal immigration.

Geneva -
Donald Trump's nominee to lead the UN migration agency said Monday that he has convinced member states that he holds no anti-Muslim views, after a series of reports accused him of prejudice against Islam.

Niamey -
Thirteen African and European countries and the EU agreed Friday that efforts to crack down on migrant trafficking to Europe should also focus on economic woes that prompt poor Africans to seek a better life in Europe.

Madrid -
More than a thousand protesters took to the streets in central Madrid on Friday as tensions remained high a day after violent clashes over the controversial death of a Senegalese street vendor.

Jerusalem -
Israel has closed a desert detention centre for migrants as part of a controversial plan for the mass expulsion of thousands of Eritreans and Sudanese who entered the country illegally, officials said Thursday.

Rome -
The migrant reception centre on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where conditions have markedly deteriorated in recent months, will be temporarily shut down for renovation works, the Italian interior ministry said Tuesday.

Tijuana -
Eladio Sanchez is unimpressed by the eight border wall prototypes looming over his house in Tijuana, Mexico, almost within spitting distance of where US President Donald Trump will visit Tuesday.

Boa Vista -
As Venezuelans flood into Brazil in search of work, money and food, alarm bells are ringing over cases of workplace exploitation.Take the example of E., a 27-year-old woman with a university degree who was a journalist back home.

Rome -
More than 20 African migrants were missing and feared drowned Tuesday after scores of people seeking to reach Italy were rescued from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.

Geneva -
The UN human rights chief delivered a stern reply to Hungary's government on Tuesday after it demanded his resignation, pledging to remain in office while insisting Prime Minister Viktor Orban is "a racist".

Geneva -
President Donald Trump's controversial nominee to lead the UN migration agency dismissed allegations of anti-Muslim bias on Thursday, telling AFP he "never" considers the faith of those in need.

Jerusalem -
Hundreds of African migrants launched a hunger strike to protest Israel's implementation of its controversial policy to expel or indefinitely imprison them, a spokesman for the group said Wednesday.

Ottawa -
Canada, which takes in more African refugees from Israel than any other nation, has voiced concerns to the Jewish state over its planned mass deportation of African migrants, an official said Monday.

Manila -
After the murder of a Philippine maid in Kuwait, domestic helpers are streaming back to Manila with tales of abusive employers -- but many are still prepared to take their chances overseas again.

Iloilo -
More than a hundred relatives and supporters of a Filipina maid whose body was found stuffed in a freezer in Kuwait brandished banners demanding justice as her coffin was returned home on Saturday.

Manila -
The body of a Philippine maid found stuffed in a freezer in Kuwait arrived home to a tearful welcome on Friday, just days after Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte barred his nationals from working in the Gulf state.

Washington -
The citizenship hopes of 1.8 million immigrants brought to the United States as children hung in the balance Monday as Congress launched debate on the hot-button issue, with President Donald Trump eager to "make a deal" on new legislation.

Bejing -
Millions have begun heading home from Beijing for Lunar New Year, but many this year will not return as China's capital becomes increasingly unwelcoming for the migrants from the provinces who once powered its economy.

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Migration Image

The western North American population of monarch butterflies migrates to Southern California. Here we see some monarchs On a Eucalyptus branch at Sweet Springs in Baywood-Los Osos. Located near Morro Bay in San Luis Obispo County, central California.

"Mike" Michael L. Baird

False Pass, Alaska is also the name given the Isanoyski Strait that gray whales will sometimes use on their journey to the Bering Sea. Here many fall prey to Killer whales.

Shishaldin

Genetic information from Ethiopians and Egyptians point to a Northern exit out of Africa as the most likely route by the ancestors of all Eurasians. Image credit: Luca Pagani.

Luca Pagani

Sandfill cranes in the Platte River valley in Nebraska, March 7, 2007.

Mongo

This baby zebra, born right before the herd started crossing the Mara River, didn't make it.

Smithsonian Channel

A Tumstone at the edge of a snow patch.

University of Queensland

The gray whale

MPF

Various views of the Manot 1 partial calvaria.

Hershkovitz et. al.

Millions of hermit crabs descend on a beach on St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Screen Capture

Migration out of Africa

Spreading homo Sapiens.jpg which is in the public domain

Map of human migration out of Africa

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Blacktip shark at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Red Phalarope at a shoreline.

Gerry Beyersbergen/Environment and Climate Change Canada,

The Red Knot, Calidris canutus, makes a yearly journey from southern Argentina to the Canadian Arctic in the spring.

Audubun.org/Doug Wechsler

Lions, hyenas and crocodiles lie in wait along the path of the great migration.

YouTube

Wildebeest, zebras and other mammals crossing the Mara River do so even with the danger of crocodiles.